Mind is a MetaphorMetaphors Database by Brad Pasanekhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors
"This mental escort which the mind supplies is drawn, of course, from the mind's ready-made stock."Work: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Idealshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25241
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25241"The more adequate the stock of ideas, the more 'able' is the man, the more uniformly appropriate is his behavior likely to be."Work: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Idealshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25245
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25245"But be our conceptions adequate or inadequate, and be our stock of them large or small, they are all we have to work with."
Work: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Idealshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25244
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25244"The flowing life of the mind is sorted into parcels suitable for presentation in the recitation-room, and chopped up into supposed 'processes' with long Greek and Latin names, which in real life have no distinct existence."Work: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Idealshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25243
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25243"In admitting a new body of experience, we instinctively seek to disturb as little as possible our pre-existing stock of ideas."Work: Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Idealshttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25242
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25242"Dry minds, which give an intellectual 'assent' to conclusions which feel no strong glow of faith in them, often do not know what their opinions are."Work: On the Emotion of Convictionhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25137
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25137"Constantly impressed ideas are brought back by the world around us, and if they are so often, get so tied to our other ideas that we can hardly wrench them away."Work: On the Emotion of Convictionhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25133
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25133"They are all from various causes "adhesive" states--states which it is very difficult to get rid of, and which, in consequence, have retained their power of creating belief in the mind, when other states, which once possessed it too, have quite lost it."Work: On the Emotion of Convictionhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25132
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25132"And in violent cases of mania, where the mind is shut up within itself, and cannot, from impotence, perceive what is without, it is as sure of the most chance fancy, as in health it would be of the best proved truths."Work: On the Emotion of Convictionhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25131
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25131"There are, it is true, some minds which a mathematician might describe as minds of 'contrary flexure,' whose particular bent it is to contradict what those around them say."Work: On the Emotion of Convictionhttp://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25130
http://metaphors.iath.virginia.edu/metaphors/25130